Obamacare Gets New Court Challenge

Opponents of the health-care overhaul have filed a new lawsuit Thursday against the federal government on behalf of four individuals and three employers in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

The complaint focuses on the law’s distribution of federal subsidies for Americans to purchase insurance, and whether people can get them if they live in one of the 33 states that have refused to set up their own insurance exchanges and have left that task up to the federal government.

The health law was designed around the idea that states would run exchanges where people could compare insurance plans and apply for the subsidies. Some critics say that language in the legislation bars the Obama administration from allowing those subsidies to be distributed in exchanges run by the federal government…